Victoria Osteen Quotes

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

God forgive you, but I never can.

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.

If you're holding on to an offense, then you haven't forgiven the person who hurt you. Unforgiveness finds excuses to talk about what people have done to us, and we'll tell anyone who will listen. There's a difference between sharing your testimony to help someone and talking about what's been done to you because you are angry about it.

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

Forgiveness is God's command.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

I never hold a grudge.